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Former Fiji Bati veteran Wes Naiqama has been appointed post-COVID.
to lead the Kaiviti Silktails Rugby Football Club as head coach
into the New South Wales Rugby League Ron Massey Cup New Zealand’s has announced its new High Commission-
competition. Naiqama played more than 150 games in the ers to Nauru and Niue. Helen Tunnah, who currently works
National Rugby League and Super League with the Newcastle in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Covid-19 response team, has
Knights, Penrith Panthers, and London Broncos during his play- been posted to Niue, having previously worked in Vanuatu and
ing career. Brazil. Richard Griffith will be High Commissioner to Nauru,
but based in Wellington. He has previously been posted to
The Cook Islands Sportsman of the Year is runner Alex Bed- Solomon Islands and Australia.
does. Paddler Jane Nicholas took out the women’s accolade.
Neither were able to get home to accept their awards due to Emmanuel Kasarherou, who is of mixed Kanaky and French
COVID-19 related quarantine restrictions and training sched- heritage, is the new director of the Quai Branly-Jacques
ules. Last year Beddoes set two National records in Australia Chirac museum in Paris. Kasarherou is a former head of the
in the 400 and 800 metre events, and won gold at the Pacific Renzo Piano-designed Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in
Games in Samoa. Noumea. He has been the museum's deputy head of collec-
tions since 2014.
Three Fijian peacekeepers have been posthumously
awarded with the Dag Hammarskjold Medal. They are the late Kiribati medical researcher, Bwarenaba Kautu, has landed
Warrant Officer Class Two Kolinio Mocevakaca, who died a position at Harvard Medical School. The 37 year old doctor
whilst serving with the United Nations Assistance Mission in and professor at Greenville University in Illinois , is the first
Iraq, Corporal Sakiusa Vakalala who died serving in the UN i-Kiribati to study or work at the Ivy League university.
Disengagement Observer Force in Syria, and Seniloli Tabua-
tausole who died as a result of a car bomb attack in Libya. He The former Melanesian Spearhead Group director gen-
was a civilian staff with the United Nations Support Mission in eral, Amena Yauvoli, is Fiji’s next ambassador to the United
Libya. States. Yauvoli will remain ambassador-designate until he
presents his credentials to the U.S President, Donald Trump
Fiji’s Ronesh Dayal has been promoted to Group Chief and replaces former ambassador, Solo Mara.
Financial Officer at BSP. Dayal was previously Chief Financial
Officer in PNG. He has over 15 years of experience in the Air Vanuatu has appointed four new Directors. Sam Firi is
financial services industry in Fiji and PNG, and in 2010 at the the new Chairman of the Board, and a former Air Vanuatu
age of 28, was the first local appointed to the post of Chief engineer. He has worked with local and regional air opera-
Financial Officer for BSP Fiji. He is the current President of tors in Vanuatu, Tonga and Kiribati. Lawyer Andrew Bal is his
CPA Australia - PNG Branch. Vice-Chairman. The other new board members are Jean Paul
Virelala—who was the longest serving CEO of Air Vanuatu and
Former Guam Governor Carl Guitierrez has taken the reins is currently the Managing Director of RDF Quarry Limited—
at Guam Tourism. Guitierrez was appointed as the interim and Philip Charlie, a former parliamentarian.
president and CEO of the Guam Visitors Bureau after former
CEO Pilar Laguaña retired. He says he wants to make Guam Sir Gordon Tietjens is stepping down as Samoan Sevens
a more unique, culturally relevant, Chamoru-centric, and coach. “With the cancellation of the Olympics and four tour-
naments more than likely to be cancelled from the 2019/2020

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